Mule deer resources and fact sheets

Mule deer management plans

• Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan — PDF
• Unit deer management plans

The Western Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA)

• WAFWA Mule Deer Working Group publications
  The DWR is active in the Western Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies and in the Mule Deer Working Group.
  • Fact Sheet 1: Relationships among Mule Deer and Their Predators — PDF
  • Fact Sheet 2: Understanding Mule Deer and Winter Feeding
  • Fact Sheet 3: Highway Effects on Mule Deer Movement and Survival
  • Fact Sheet 4: Competition between Mule Deer and Elk
  • Fact Sheet 5: Carrying Capacity — How Many Deer Can We Have?
  • Fact Sheet 6: Understanding Mule Deer and Antler Point Restrictions
  • Fact Sheet 7: Antlerless Mule Deer Harvest
  • Fact Sheet 8: Illegal Harvest and Mule Deer Populations
  • Fact Sheet 9: Urban Mule Deer Issues
  • Fact Sheet 10: Translocation of Mule Deer
  • Fact Sheet 11: Disease and Parasite of Mule Deer
  • Fact Sheet 12: Understanding Mule Deer Migration
  • Fact Sheet 14: Fertility Control and Mule Deer Population Management
  • Fact Sheet 16: Mule Deer Shed Antler Hunting
  • Fact Sheet 17: Winter Range Disturbance
  • Fact Sheet 18: Mule Deer and the Effects of Fire
  • Fact Sheet 19: Mule Deer Nutrition
  • Fact Sheet 20: Mule Deer Management and the Public Process
  • Fact Sheet 21: Pinyon-Juniper Management for Mule Deer
  • Fact Sheet 22: Habitat Conversion by Wildfire and Invasive Species
  • Fact Sheet 24: Managing Hunting for Opportunity or Mature Bucks
  • Fact Sheet 26: Encountering Newborn Deer Fawns
  • Fact Sheet 29: Mule Deer and Wild/Feral Horses and Burros
  • Fact Sheet 31: Assessing Mule Deer Harvest
  • Fact Sheet 32: Historical and Current Mule Deer Abundance
• Mule deer: Changing Landscapes, Changing Perspectives
• Mule Deer and Movement Barriers

Utah's Watershed Restoration Initiative

• The initiative is committed to finding and implementing solutions to problems facing Utah's landscapes.

Deer-related Wildlife Board meetings

You can watch Utah Wildlife Board meetings about deer hunting (typically April or May and December).

A program to control coyotes and other predators

• Utah's predator-control program

Antler gathering ethics course

• From Jan. 1 to May 31 each year, shed antler and horn gathers must possess an antler-gathering certificate. To obtain this certificate, take this online ethics course. You may print the certificate at the end of the course.